Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
OUTLAWS At BAY.
,,.,hed Battle Between Robbers and
,~;.ilautes In I ,dian Territory
Neither Side Victorious.
g.. President on His Way Home
Gfrard Heir Turns Up
Princely Profligacy.

,,-r,r Rock, Ark, October GA
'.;ol TO the Gazette from Wawoka,
,pdisn Territory, via Muskogee. this even.
""savs: On Thursday a desperate fight
,ust Mace on the north fork OF the Arkan.
"sr;ver between Bud Trainers gang oil
flaw and q vigilance committee under
W.. leadership Of Robert Ro' e~rtson, a
c,oteh haIf-breed, which followed them
.om Duckworth's store in the Creek Ma.
.;on on a raid there Wednesday. 1t ap-
,.ars the outlaws, finding out the size of
.hs force which was following them, decided
" risk an encounter and made haste to
Zach the river banks where they could fluid
.belter behind trees and in ravines which
IN. the hanks on either side. In this they
.ncceeded, 80 that when
THE vIe1LANrEs CAME UP
.hsy we're entirely for a time at the mercy
o,two-sccre OF men who knew not what
mercy was. Henderson then took his men
a.hort distance up the river where q ford
;na place could be found, they crossed and
took up a position on the other side OF the
! ,trsam from the outlaws and where his
men were as we'll protected az Trainers
men. The river at this point is only about
me hundred wards wide and across this
distance, from Thursday morning until
thursday night, bullets were singing to
,he;r mission OF death. When the ~vigilan.
tss had succeeded in obtaining this posi-
ton they found they had
LOST THREE MEN
and two more were seriously wounded. As
Trainer found the enemy in his e on the
o,rosite side OF the river he sent half OF
h;s men down stream to the crossing and
nne nm on the other side fighting under
LIVER Of the trees. In this coup d etat
tbsy we're surprised by the avengers who
met them half way and opened fire upon
them checking their course and driving
them panicstricken and p~recipitately back.
In epdeavoring to rally his men, Bill Chutt
was killed and before the river could be re-
,orded John Leech. OF the robber gang, was
shot off his horse, but not killed. The fight
from this on was
CONTINUED ACROss The STREAM,
the hanks OF which were lined at a distance
n, about five rods apart with sharpshoot-
orc. No sooner was a head, an arm or any
mart of a body visible on either side than a
buiIeT WAS seeklNR " uDu f''sHIcuO CAeACAus
Az Thursday was corning on, henderson
called his men in for a consultation, when
il was found that OF his force eight were
killed outright and eight othels had re-
ceiyed serious though not fatal wounds.
The force was in this way reduced one.half,
and it was thought best to remove the
wounded here and 60 back home and
STIR UP REINFoRcEMENrs.
The dead were buried and the wounded.
It was found after dressing their wounds,
we're able to return home with the rest OF
the party. 1t is thought that many OF the
outlaws we're killed and OF the pursuing
party, though this will never BIZ known.
Henderson says he will collect men and iol.
low the robbers to hades il necessary but
what he will wipe them out. Henry Aires,
a aelIto-do stockman from Cherokee Ma.
ton, who was one of the party with Hend-
erson, says he is of opinion that not less
than fifteen were killed outright upon both
sdes, and thinks one-half the outlaws who
we're not killed were wounded.